Online Tournament Hand

by Mantis01
Submitted by: snoopy on Mon, 20/08/2007 - 2:20am

 
This week, I posted the following hand on the blonde poker 'Poker Hand Analysis' board.

The Tournament

Environment:           On-Line
Type:                       5 Table Sit & Go     
Players:                   45                           
Buy-in:                     $100 + $9
Starting Chips:         $1,500
Prize Structure:       1st $1,395 thru 7th $157.50
Remaining Players:  18
Average Chips:        $3,750
Chip Leader:            $10,200


Table 3 was broken about 10 minutes ago and we were reseated at Table 1

The Players
Tin~Tin:      $6,425 - 5th of 18 & in middle position
fruitfly22:   $2,850 - 14th of 18 & on the button
MANTIS01:  $5,675 - 6th of 18 and in the big blind

History
We have been at the table for just 2 orbits and have yet to enter a pot...same goes for fruitfly22. Tin~Tin has been quite active though. He has entered 3 pots with a raise of 3xbb on each occasion. He took 2 pots uncontested after the flop with re-raises and folded once when his continuation bet was re-raised. We are yet to see a showdown. The chip leader has over $10k and is starting to pull away from the field.

The Hand
The action is folded around to Tin~Tin who enters the pot for a raise. He makes it 400 to go. fruitfly22 calls on the button and the small blind folds. We look down in the big blind to see...

 

The pot stands at 1,325 and it only costs 200 more to get involved, so decide to make the call and go to the flop.

The Flop


 Two Clubs   

After some deliberation we decide to check.

Tin~Tin immediately follows through with a bet of 600. fruitfly22 folds and the action gets back to us. The pot now stands at 2,125.

We decide to call Tin~Tin's bet of 600 and go to the turn with 2,725 chips in the pot.

The Turn

The turn card is peeled off and it is...

 two spades

making a board of

 Two Clubs      two spades

After some consideration we decide to check. Tin~Tin immediately throws in another bet of 1,200.

We decide to call Tin~Tin's turn bet of 1,200.

The River
The river card hits and it is...

 

The final board

 Two Clubs      two spades 

We check.... Tin~Tin immediately moves all-in for his remaining 4,200 chips.

The Response

As always, many thanks to everyone who chipped in with their views, not just on the river but throughout the whole hand:

doubleup: "Hmmm I'm going to call this. Sklansky discusses this in his essay 'Advanced play for calling stations'. I did suggest in my last response that calling the turn with a view to calling the river was better than raising the turn, as the latter play only gets the chips in when we're beaten."

tikay: "I just put the white flag up in these situations, as soon as the post-flop bet comes in. It's cost me 300, big deal. Thing is, I can find a better situation later, I'm quite sure. We have to play this passively, if we play it, so we are being dictated to by someone else, and I just hate that. And we cannot control the pot size. And we are out of position."

pswnio: "I wouldn't have check called this on the flop and turn in a million years, but if I had, and I was facing this river bet, I'd fold. Look at it from Tin Tin's point of view. He's faced check call, check call. If he puts you on a flush draw and has nothing, he might not bet here unless he's got a really weak hand (this logic might be twisted, tell me if it is please). If he puts you on top pair, and you've called this far, he can't fire again with nothing cos he really can't be sure you're going away. He's not too scared of a set or boat, which would surely have bet the river. Coupled with the min raise pre-flop, I put him on an overpair to the board."

Junglecat03: "Having played the hand so passively it's a mistake to now fold the river imo."

The Reveal

Tin~Tin held   

Conclusion

So we called and Tin~Tin showed what really amounts to a busted flush draw but with a small flopped pair as well.

The reason I posted this hand was because there is a lot of poor play on display from both players and making mistakes often enables you to learn much more than perfect play.

If you would like to read my thoughts on the hand, then please click here.